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[JYoshi10]

Hello,
I was wondering if it would be possible use an orthographic projection in the same way you would use a perspective one. Say you have a camera at the bottom-center of your room looking from point 100 in the air to the center of the floor in the room. Normally you would use a perspective projection but I want to use an orthographic one. An example (from Blender):
Perspective:


Ortho (from the same point):


If this is possible, how would I do it?

Edited by JYoshi10, 07 February 2012 - 05:31 AM.

[JYoshi10]

Can someone help me please? My game would be a lot better with this effect.

[TheSnidr]

Try increasing the distance between the camera and the point you're looking at while also decreasing the angle of the view frustum (the angle should be a function of the distance, a trigonometric function I don't remember at the moment, but try a little).
Isometric graphics are the ultimate form of this method, and are defined as the view from a camera infinetely far away zooming in the same amount (which is quite absurd if you think about it)

Edited by TheSnidr, 07 February 2012 - 06:08 AM.

[Gamer3D]

You can use the d3d_transform functions to rotate/scale/move your scene, while using the default orthographic perspective. Good luck.

[JYoshi10]

TheSnidr, I tried your suggestion and it seems to have worked, although I didn't make a function for it, I just hard-coded the values in. It looks pretty good with the y- and z-values +2000 and a FOV of 5 (the camera doesn't move, so I don't really need a function). I also tried Gamer3D's method but found that the camera was looking at the underside of the floor.

[Gamer3D]

TheSnidr, I tried your suggestion and it seems to have worked, although I didn't make a function for it, I just hard-coded the values in. It looks pretty good with the y- and z-values +2000 and a FOV of 5 (the camera doesn't move, so I don't really need a function). I also tried Gamer3D's method but found that the camera was looking at the underside of the floor.

Camera was looking at underside of floor? Rotate the scene using d3d_transform commands, as suggested earlier.

Anyway, for the formula you should be using for TheSnidr's suggestion, read the Wikipedia article on Dolly Zoom. Same idea.